Zola

Zola is a static site generator CLI for blogs, docs, and other content-heavy websites built from Markdown, templates, and local assets. Its command surface stays small: initialize a project, build output, run a live-reload dev server, and check content before deployment.

• Scaffold a new site with the expected config, content, templates, static, and theme directories.
• Build deployable static output with overrides for base URL, output path, drafts, and minification.
• Run a local file-watching preview server and check rendered content plus external links before shipping.

• The command surface is small and most day-to-day workflows map cleanly to repeatable shell commands for build, preview, and validation.
• build, serve, check, and completion are non-interactive once a project exists, which fits CI and inspect-change-verify loops well.
• CLI output is human-oriented and there is no structured output flag, so agents need to verify results through exit codes, generated files, and served pages rather than JSON parsing.

• init asks configuration questions instead of offering a fully non-interactive project bootstrap path.
• serve is a long-running watcher and local web server, so unattended use needs process supervision and port management.